Larry LaFountain is a charismatic professor and author who teaches Spanish, Latino Studies and also courses about LGBTQ issues. In this episode, he talks about life growing up in Puerto Rico and his difficult first years as a college student in the U.S. He also reveals how he became a drag performer after an appearance on a cooking show in Chicago.
I've been performing in drag since 2010 because of some Puerto Rican friends in Chicago. I'm writing a book on Puerto Rican drag and trans performance and I write about an artist called Fausto Fernos who's Puerto Rican. Fausto and his partner, Mar Felion, have a YouTube program called, "Cooking with Drag Queens" and they decided that it would be hilarious to dress me up and to have me appear cooking Puerto Rican food and the rest is history.
- Larry LaFountain